Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...name, I find it difficult to glow with pride when addressed by an unfamiliar term that was tacked on much like a cattle brand to accommodate a society that still regards women as possessions. Nor can I delight in the inconvenience and expense caused when driver's license, bank accounts, stocks and legal records must be rewritten to match a new legal label. Most cutting of all is the prevalent attitude that marriage has automatically disqualified me from any intelligent conversation and that baby making and dishwashing can be my only destiny. Surely there must be a less humbling...
...generate louder noise than a factory; both exceed the volume that most experts believe will impair hearing. In some offices, the constant staccato of typewriters and calculators is so nerve-racking that employees quit after a short time on the job. (New York's First National City Bank neatly resolved that problem by hiring deaf clerical help in its check-processing department.) City streets, already filled with roaring trucks and buses, are made intolerable by the added din of construction. Even when people sleep, they hear and react to noise, which makes them tired, tense and irritable...
Fictional Rate. That pressure last week brought a further rise in interest rates from their already towering levels. High-grade utility bonds were offered in Wall Street at a record 8.9% yield. William F. Butler, vice-president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, says that banks are refraining from raising their 81% prime rate on business loans only because they fear "the wrath of Congress." The prime rate is an increasingly unreliable guide to borrowing costs anyway. Growing numbers of borrowers pay as much as 10.6% interest on loans officially made at the prime rate, because banks are strictly enforcing...
...calls it the first "fullscale attack" against "covert forms of protectionism which discriminate against American exports." In a talk last week to the National Foreign Trade Convention in Manhattan, Stans also promised U.S. exporters additional measures of practical aid. One would add some $750 million to the Export-Import Bank's funds. Exporters can now borrow only limited amounts at the bank's 6% interest rate, and must finance the rest of their sales with private loans at 9% or more. Many foreign competitors can borrow all they need from their governments at low rates-and save...
...quite sure what was now demanded of me, I just wandered around for some time. By six o'clock, troops had surrounded the White House, most bank windows had been broken, MPs were stationed at the major hotels to help satirized matrons into limousines, and a pall of gas was spreading haphazardly about the city. The whole affair came off as very South American. So this is what they've been warning us the universities might become, I thought. And then, coming across a book store that had also had its plate glass busted in, I knew I wanted...